Calendar



Unrrnn Smarts PATENT FFIQE;

JOHN OUSSONS, OF GLEN'ALLEN, VIRGINIA.

CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,265, dated June 26,1888.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN CUSSONS, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain, residing at Glen A1len,in the county of Henrico and State ofVirginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Calendars, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to calendars, and the purpose thereof is to providea changeable calendar-dial which may be set each week for currentuse,and to combine therewith a tabular series of calculated dates forensuing years, by reference to which the dial may be set, in order todetermine the day of the week upon which any given day of the month willfall in future during the years for which the tabular dates arecalculated.

I effect the proposed result by means of the novel features hereinafterfully set forth, and then definitely pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of a calendarcontaining my invention. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section ofFig. 1.

In the said drawings, the referenee-numeral 1 denotes the face-board orcalendarplate, having a segmental space, 2, upon which the days of theweek are displayed in any suitable manner, the usual abbreviated formbeing that shown. Below the space 2 the plate is slitted along thedotted lines 3 3 and bent back suff.-

ciently to permit the insertion of the edge of a dial, 4, which isattached to the calendarplate by a central eyelet, 5, and has upon itsmargin the numerical indications of dates arranged in spaces whichregister, as the dial is turned, with the divisions or spaces containingthe days of the week. The latter, as I have shown them, are arrangedwith Sunday as the initial day, in accordance with the usual custom; butit is evident that any other day might initiate the series, the otherdays of a complete week following thereafter in their regular order.

Upon the calendar-plate is laid off a space, 6, which is dividedvertically into six divisions. Beginning at the left hand, the firstdivision or space contains a column of figures giving the number of daysin each month in the proper order of months, and adjacent thereto is aspace in which the abbreviated designations or names of the months arearranged in order corresponding with the arrangement of the figures inthe first space.

The remainder of the space is divided into four M suhstantially-equalparls, in which, under the current year and the three years nextensuing, are displayed figures representing the days of the month uponwhich the initial day in the segmental space 2 falls. By the arrangementshown, this day being Sunday, the tabular statement in these fourdivisions will indicate upon the line containing the designation of eachmonth not only the number of Sundays in said month, but the numericaldates upon which each Sunday will fall in each month during the fouryears covered by the tabular statement.

For current use the dial is set each week in the usual manner. In orderto determine upon what day of the week any given day of the month willfall in future, the user runs down the list of months in the seconddivision of space 6 until he reaches the month required. Noting thedateupon which the Sunday preceding the rcquired day will fall, he turns thedial until the numerical designation of that Sunday corresponds orregisters with the first or Sunday division in the segmental space 2. Aglance at the displayed figures on the dial will then give the desiredinformation, care being taken to make suitable allowance for monthshaving but thirty days and for the month of February. For example, if itis desired to ascertain upon what day of the week the 4th day of Marchwill fall in 1891, the operator looks in the second division of thespace 6 for the month of March. He then runs along the line to thefourth yearly divis ion under the figures 1891, where he finds theSunday preceding the 4th of March falls upon the first day of the month.He then turns the dial until the figure l registers with the initialdivision of the'scgmen'tal space 2, thereby falling under Sunday, and aglance at the numeral 4 on the dial shows that it registers with theWVedncsday space, upon which (lay the 4th of March will therefore fallin that year.

, It is evident that the calender might be calculated for any number ofyears, without anydeparture from my invention, by simply extending thetabular series of Sunday dates.

A space, 7, may be allowed for advertising purposes.

A second series of figures may be arranged in a space, 8, opposite aportion of the monthly series, to adapt the calendar to correctlyindicate dates of the month and Week days on which they fall in the lastweek of one month and first week of the ensuing month without shiftingthe dial.

What I claim is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a calendarconsisting of a face-plate, 1, having a segmental slot and acorresponding space above the slot bearing stationary designations ofthe names of all the seven days of a week, said face-plate having arectilinear space, 6, divided vertically into several divisions, onedivision containing figures giving the nunr ber of days of each month inregular order in a single vertical column from top to bot tom, anotherdivision containing in regular order designations of all the months in ayear in a single vertical column from top to bottom, and the remainingdivisions being substantially equal, and in which, under the currentyear and one or more succeeding years, are respectively displayed inregular order figures designating the several days of each month uponthe initial day in the segmental space above the slot, falls, and arotating dial behind the face-plate having an annular row of figuresdesignating the thirtyone days of a month, of which figures seven onlyare exposed through the slot, substantially as and for the purposesdescribed.

2. The combination, with a calendar having a space showing the days of aweek in order and provided with a tabular statement showing the day ofthe month upon which the initial week day will fall throughout each ofthe months for a series of years, of a dial pivoted centrally upon thecalendar-plate and having the numerical designations of the days of themonth represented on its margin in spaces adapted to register with thespaces containing the designations of the days of the week,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN CUSSONS. \Vitnesses:

FRANK M. WOON, W. F. REDDY.

